Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-11-11
Attend to Your Horses.

symptoms Oh ulstcmpef, which u pre-
valent at this season. Give the horse
a warm bran mash, with one drachn
OF chlorate OF potash in it, daily, for q
week or ten DAYS. There IS nothing
serious to be apprehended.
For horse which is weak in the
knees rub the limbs brskly with q
wooden cloth. then bathe with salt and
water, wipe dry, and apply a mixture
of one pint of alcohol and one drachm
Of tnclure of Spanish fly, rubb ng in a
tablespoonful twice IA day with the
hand Let the horse run in a loose
stall. deeply Uttered with sawdust or
dry swamp muck. or on an earth floor
Skunk's oil, beef brine and other trash
of the kIEd are useless
Piles are caused by dialatation of the
blood vessels of the lower gut or rec
tum and the formation OF tumors. In
horses they are rare, and melanotic
tumors on the ming membrane are
often COMPOUNDED with them. The
treatment is as follows: Give daily
three ounces of Glauber salts and COM
mon salt; bran and linsced mashes.
with one drachm each Of sulphate of
iron and ground gentian root If the
piles appear outwardy or there is much
irritat on. and the horse rubs the tail,
inject one ounce OF a solution of "A
irachm of sugar OF lead in a pint of
water.
A horse can be fed on grain and bran
if lie IS not overfed. These foods are
concentrated, and need TO be given
with caution Cottonseed meal, if quite
free from lint, may be given in modera-
ton. Some coarse fodder is desirable
If 1t can be procured, and a supply
should be grown either of IN llet, corn
fodder or pea vines. and cut when in
blossom and cured for hay. If little
roughness is given six pounds of bran
and the same of some kind of grain,
and two pounds of whole clean cotton
seed, would make sufficient food for
l,000-pound horse! Five pounds Of hay
daily given with this grain would be
quite sufficient.
Green food in the summer is often
the cause Of serious Indigestion, with
its common results-colic and rupture
of the stomach, which is inevitably
fatal. Such food should never be given
wet, or heated by fermentation after
cutting, or in excessive quantity. nor
when a horse is weary. Clover or rye
should be cut after the dew is of and
before the heat of the day. and spread
in the shade to wilt until the next day.
A sprinkling of salt will tend to avoid
trouble with such food, as it prevents
fermentation.
Water should always be given before
feeding, and never Immediately after
ward Collie is often produced by CO.
pious watering soon after eating and
also by watering when the animal is
hot and weary from work. The
stomach being chilled is for the time
incapable of digcsting any fosd. Light
feed ng is to be given during hard or
rapid work, and the full feed is only
given after sufficient rest. Overfeed-
ing is to be especially avo ded, and
regularity is very important One
twelye.quart pailful of cut hay and four
pounds of meal is a full feed for 1000
pound horse, given twice a day. with
an equivalent feeding between of oats
or corn and long hay. Orchard grass
hay, cut just at the blossoming, is ex-
celent for horses Ripe timothy is the
next best. and corn blades, pulled
green and well cured. make as good
feed as any. Dusty or mouldy food i,
to he specially avoided, not only for its
effect upon the digestive organs, but for
its evil results upon the respiratory
| functions. Idleness is conducive to in
/ digestion, and during the present
season particularly horses should be
turned out several hours for exercise
every day.
The shrinkage OF the muscles of the
shoulder, and which is commonly call
ed sweeney" is due to some lameness
of the foot or limb, which induces the
horse to favor the shoulder and throw
the muscles out of use. This inaction
causes the muscles to decrease in sub
stance. and the shoulder flattens or be-
comes followed. The remedy for this
Disagreement is to releve the lame
ness and restore the shoulder TO proper
activity. The seat of the trouble may
be in the shoulder. which may have
been sprained. IL this is the case,
pressure with the knuckles on the
shoulder will show it; if not, it will
most probably be found in the foot on
the pastern joint Navicular disease is
the most frequent cause Of the shrink
ing of the shoulder muscles. This dis
ease is indicated by the animal point
ing the toe of the foot forward. and by
going lame at starting and soon recov-
ering. Driving fast down hill is THE